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Welcome!
To Electric Connections 2004!
Electric Connections 2004• Housekeeping Stuff
– Coffee, Lunch, Start and End Times
– Fire exits, toilets, mobile phones
– Breakout sessions
– Speaker time-slots
• Looking Back, Pushing Forward?– Some *extra* stuff you might want to remember, some
you might want to forget!
– No claim to comprehensiveness on either count…
WIDWISAWN
• http://widwisawn.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/– COSMIC Hits Perth: Electric Connections 2003– Collections and collaboration in the Scottish information environment
Archives, Libraries, Museums: possibilities for co-operation within the environment of the global information infrastructure, or, Wee countries wi' big ideas.
– Martyn Wade on the National Library of Scotland, its strategy and enthusiasm for collaboration
– CASS: The Collaborative Academic Store for Scotland PilotPreserving and Maintaining Availability of Print Material. The Role of Repository Libraries: The 2nd International Conference on Repository Libraries - A ReportThe Home Nations: the Scottish Collaborative Ethos News Item: Scottish Declaration of Open Access Planned
– Who Is Doing What In Scotland And What’s Needed
Points of Note
• Information Scotland Online
• COSMIC - SCI, R&D Plan, Shared Services
• Scottish Common Information Environment
• A common look and feel for the SCIE
• HaIRST Experimental Harvester
• Scottish Terminologies Pilot
• COSMIC Closed Access on TikiWiki
Coordination and Management: To guide strategy, policy, planning, infrastructure design & development, training, institutional representation etc | Implemented via COSMIC and existing or new groups.
Research & Development:Technical and non-technical work to progress the infrastructure in line with an agreed joint R&D plan | Undertaken by participating groups or institutions | Backed by COSMIC
Funding Processes: To coordinate bids for existing funds and influence future funded R&D programmes
Local UserEnvironments
User services, includingIndependent portals utilising mix of local and centralservices | Localcontrol of some shared servicefunctions via staff portal | User needs assessment
Shared Central Services
Cross-searchable catalogue | Collection and collection strengthdatabases | Portal landscaper | Scottish Distributed Digital library| E-journals service |Terminologies server | ILL &DD | Authentication
Interoperability Forum
Advice and training on standards and their implementation | Inclusive seamlessaccess to global information services | JISC & Resource IEcompatibility| Scottish web presence
Collaborative Activities
On collecting andcataloguing, onpurchase and storage,on digitisation andcourse development,on user & staff training,, onquality control,and so on
Professional Support
Current awareness and general supportservices for staffvia online facilities for professionals, emaillists, journals and e-journals, conferences and meetings, professional groups, staff collaborativecollecting portal
Feedback from Research & Practice
The Scottish Cooperative Infrastructure
Management and R&D of Online and Offline:
